VidSys Fuels Growth with Additions to Senior Management Team
Respected Industry Executives to Serve as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President for Physical Security Situation Management Solution Provider
VIENNA, Va.--(November 5, 2007)--VidSys, the leading provider of Physical Security Situation Management, today announced it has added two senior executives to its management team. John Bruno has been named as the company's chief financial officer and David Fowler has been appointed as its senior vice president, marketing and product development. Each brings decades of experience leading emerging technology companies to their roles.
"As we continue to grow, we strive to build and maintain a strong management team comprised of seasoned executives with goals that mirror our objectives, as John and David clearly do," explained Chuck Teubner, CEO of VidSys. "John, who has devoted his career to helping small companies build strong financial infrastructures, provides us with the financial guidance necessary to manage our rapid growth. David, a software industry veteran, brings his strong portfolio of experience to help effectively guide our marketing, engineering and business development efforts as we transition from a start-up to an established market player."
Bruno brings more than 20 years of experience and expertise directing the strategic operational and financial aspects of high-technology companies to VidSys. Most recently, he served as CFO for Appfluent Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise business intelligence and data warehouse management software.
"This is an exciting and important stage in VidSys' development and the strategies we formulate and put in place now will help ensure a high speed of growth for years to come," said Bruno.
Fowler brings more than 30 years of industry and senior management experience to his position. Prior to joining VidSys, he served as senior vice president of marketing and business development for Pragmatech Software, a worldwide leader in improving sales effectiveness through personalized communications. Prior to Pragmatech, he was EVP of marketing, products, channel sales and business development for Groove Networks which was acquired by Microsoft. He has also held numerous executive and general management roles at companies including Kana Software, Silknet, Sun Microsystems, FTP Software, Chipcom, Wang Labs and Gradient Technologies.
"VidSys is in a prime position in the marketplace because of the unique value proposition it offers industry leading organizations to tie together disparate security and video surveillance technologies into a single seamless management platform in order to make intelligent, real-time decisions," explained Fowler.
Fowler holds an MBA from New York University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and has been an advisor and board member to a number of early stage companies.
About VidSys
VidSys is a leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) solutions and the only operations center software company that provides truly collaborative situational awareness for safety, security, military and transportation organizations. The VidSys platform is based on an open, hybrid architecture that integrates data from any video source, as well as any detection, monitoring or control system, allowing public safety and security personnel to focus on awareness, assessment and action. Founded in 2005, the company’s solutions are deployed in transportation, federal government, enterprise and state and local government applications, including some of the largest state and city command and control centers in the U.S. Privately funded by IDG Ventures Boston and Motorola Ventures, the company has offices in Marlborough, Massachusetts and Vienna, Virginia. For more information, visit www.vidsys.com.
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